At date and time Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:30:18 +0300, Dima Veselov wrote: > Hello! > > > I was very, very impressed to see an oldish (mid-2013) NetBSD 6 install > > on this machine (I didn't have a more recent CD to hand), with hardware > > RAID, network adapters and video all working. > > I have bunch of this servers and yes, NetBSD support it almost fully. > You seem to be lucky getting X4140 with LSI SAS adapter, because some > of them has Adaptec, which is not supported. > > > I tried a recent Linux as > > well but it failed to set up the network adapters. > > X4140 has strange NVIDIA bridges and network enumerator devices, > which can cause problems. My configurations has many of them > including Debian 6/7 and NetBSD 6 working for years in production. > > > I plan to put NetBSD 7 on this over the next few days. > > Don't forget to update server firmware, because X4140 has nice but > weak service processor and it is most vulnerable part of this server.
Thanks for the advice Dima. I did indeed go searching for firmware updates but it seems we would need a support contract with Oracle, which is out of the question for this business. I might be able to get the person who supplied the server to download the firmware. > Stock ILOM version can brick itself if it work for long time unattended. > Still don't know reasons, but I have 3 bricks for past 5 yrs. Maybe > they get offended without human attention? An expensive brick! > Also don't be surprised if serial port speed between server and ILOM > will change to default by itself - it's okay for any ILOM version :)) -- Gerard Lally
